EELV Congress: Marine Tondelier should lead the party

Marine Tondelier is on her way to becoming the next head of the Green Ecology Europe organization, with 46.97% of the votes of the members on her proposal. Following “, according to partial results announced on Saturday evening by the leadership. At the end of the “decentralized” congress in the regions, the first phase of the vote on the appointment of the future national secretary from six candidates, the members of the environmentalists put this elected representative from Henin-Beaumont (Pas de Calais) .), who was considered the favorite and represented the outgoing leadership, especially backed by former national secretary Julien Bayou.

In partial results (90% of the regions are deprived, according to management), his rival Sophie Bussière, who is supported by Yannick Jadot, comes in second with 18.07% of the vote. Melissa Camara, backed by ecofeminist MP Sandrine Rousseau and part of the party’s left wing, won 13.54%, a “disappointing” result for Alain Coulombel, leader of parties on the left.

“This is a historic result”

Three other candidates with more confidential petitions are each gaining less than 10%: former Brittany regional candidate Claire Demars-Poirrier won 9.6%, Electoral Commissioner Hélène Hardy 6.59% and Executive Géraldine Boyer 4.34%. . %. “Never has an environmental congress given such a clear orientation in view of the separating abyss” Following from other lists. This is a historic result,” Marine Tondelier greeted in a press release.

Members also elected members of the party’s future federal council (party parliament) and 400 delegates who will formally nominate a new national secretary at a “federal congress” scheduled for 10 December in Rungis (Val-de-Marne).

“Marine Tondelier will be National Secretary”

But in order to run the party, you must have 60% of the seats in the Federal Council, which should force Marine Tondelier to form alliances with other lists within the next 15 days. “The question is not whether Marine Tondelier will be the national secretary. She will be. But the question is whether it will be able to make an expansion to obtain a majority” and whether it will be able to manage, analyzes the connoisseur of the movement.

With this bill, the members expressed “the will that from January the general states of ecology be held throughout France, which will prepare and lead to our rebirth, to the great movement of political ecology”, added in his press to release Marine Tondelier, who also wishes to “gather a million environmentalists by the end of this mandate” and “get out of internal clashes”.